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Although our evolutionary heritage has saddled us with some significant health problems, in the long run it has served us well…
The 1918 Flu 1 – a conspiracy of Silence
Germ Theory
Although our evolutionary heritage has saddled us with some significant health problems, in the long run it has served us well…
In our last lecture, we looked at the ways that trade, travel, technology and agriculture can provide new habitats and new dispersal routes for microbes
The Evolutionary Arms Race Remember the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland?
The 1918 Flu 2 The Philadelphia Story
The 1918 Flu 1 – a conspiracy of Silence
So say the Laws of Manu, an ancient Brahmin text on moral conduct Man is a moral animal…
Pandora's Box Remember the legend of Pandora's Box?
In our last lecture, we watched our distant ancestors descend from the trees into a brave new world, filled with new evolutionary challenges
The Germ of Laziness
Autoimmunity Self Versus Self Christopher Columbus was a pioneer in more ways than one
The 1918 Flu 3 The Search for the Virus
Old World to New
The Germ of Laziness
Death by Chocolate There’s something romantic about riding on a train…
Human Evolution In the Origin of Species, Darwin goes out of his way to avoid mentioning human evolution
Evolution is constrained it has to run in certain channels Evolution always has to work with whatever is already in place
But there were many vexing problems Darwin couldn’t solve Among them was the problem of genetic diseases
Stone Knives to Iron Plows
The Rolling Stones summed it up nicely… What a drag it is, getting old
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